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How Scientists Date Ancient Cave Art Science

How Scientists Date Ancient Cave Art

From radiocarbon to laser-ablation uranium-series techniques, researchers use increasingly precise methods to determine when prehistoric humans painte...

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How Plate Tectonics Works—and Why Earth Needs It Science

How Plate Tectonics Works—and Why Earth Needs It

Earth's outer shell is cracked into massive moving plates that drive earthquakes, build mountains, regulate climate, and may be essential for life its...

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What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters Science

What Is the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and Why It Matters

The Clarion-Clipperton Zone is a vast stretch of Pacific seafloor rich in critical minerals and undiscovered species. It sits at the center of the glo...

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Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program Science

Poland Allocates PLN 16 Million to Brown Bear Protection Program

The Ministry of Climate has launched a four-year, PLN 16 million+ program to protect the brown bear, encompassing prevention, intervention, and educat...

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What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years? Science

What Are Sleeper Sharks and How Do They Live 500 Years?

Sleeper sharks are slow-moving deep-sea predators that rank among the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth. Their unique biochemistry, ultra-slow metabo...

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How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food Science

How Ravens Memorize Wolf Kill Sites to Find Food

Ravens don't simply follow wolves to scavenge meals. New research reveals they memorize landscape-scale hunting hotspots and fly directly to likely ki...

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How Living Seawalls Work—and Why Cities Need Them Science

How Living Seawalls Work—and Why Cities Need Them

Traditional seawalls destroy marine habitats with flat, featureless surfaces. Living seawalls use eco-engineered panels that mimic natural rock format...

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How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning Science

How Tropical Peatlands Work—and Why They're Burning

Tropical peatlands store more carbon than all the world's forests combined, yet wildfires in these ecosystems have reached a 2,000-year high. Here's h...

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How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere Science

How Solar Wind Stripped Mars of Its Atmosphere

Billions of years ago, Mars had rivers, lakes, and a thick atmosphere. Today it is a frozen desert. The culprit is the solar wind—and the loss of the...

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How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters Science

How Sharks Form Social Bonds—and Why It Matters

New research overturns the image of sharks as solitary killers. From bull sharks in Fiji to lemon sharks in the Bahamas, science reveals that many spe...

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How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun Science

How Dinosaurs Hatched Eggs—With Help From the Sun

Long before modern birds perfected the art of brooding, oviraptor dinosaurs used a remarkable combination of body heat and solar warmth to incubate th...

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How Landslides Form—and Why They're So Deadly Science

How Landslides Form—and Why They're So Deadly

Landslides kill thousands of people every year and cause billions in damage, yet many people don't understand what triggers them. Here's the science b...

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